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Imperatives: Commands are similar to statements, but do not establish any facts. The question is whether truth values can be attributed to them in logic, e.g. if they are obeyed or not obeyed. With a rewording like "It is necessary that ..." commands can be aligned to factual findings.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jürgen Habermas on Imperatives - Dictionary of Arguments

III 404
Imperative/Communicative Action/Habermas: in case of imperatives involving a claim to power of the speaker, i.e. including a possible sanctioning, we must know the sanction conditions.
>Understanding/Habermas
, See Acceptability/Habermas.
A listener understands the call to stop smoking if (a) he/she knows the conditions under which he can bring about the desired state, and (b) knows the conditions under which the speaker has good reason to expect the listener to feel forced to comply with the will of the speaker. Then he/she knows what makes the statement acceptable.
>Acceptability, >Understanding, >Agreement.
III 405
Within a framework regulated by norms, the conditions extend to knowledge of the relevant norms and their current validity as well as knowledge of the consequences which entails non-compliance.
IV 51
Imperative/Habermas: with imperatives as well as with announcements, the speaker does not want to reach a consensus, but wants to influence situations of action. Imperatives only express the intentions of a speaker who is oriented towards consequences.
>Intentions.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Ha I
J. Habermas
Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988

Ha III
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981

Ha IV
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981


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